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214 lived to see an arrival of Anu at the gates of Babylon. In fact, such an arrival never took place, even though Nibiru did return. It is a fact that astronomical tablets from that very time record actual observations of Nibiru, alias “Planet of Mar- duk.”’ Some were reported as omina, for example, a tablet catalogued K.8688 that informed the king that if Venus shall be seen “in front of” (i.e., rising ahead of ) Nibiru, the crops will fail, but if Venus shall rise “behind” (i.e., after) Nibiru, “the crop of the land will succeed.” Of greater interest to us are a group of “Late Babylonian” tablets found in Uruk; they rendered the data in twelve monthly zodiacal columns and combined the texts with pictorial depictions. In one of these tablets (VA 7851, Fig. 95), the Planet of Marduk, shown be- tween the Aries ram symbol on one side and the seven sym- bol for Earth on the other side, depicts Marduk within the planet. Another example is tablet VAT 7847; it names an ac- tual observation, in the constellation of Aries, as the “Day when the gate of the great lord Marduk was opened’”— when Nibiru had appeared into view; and then has an en- try—‘“Day of the Lord Marduk’—as the planet moved on and was seen in Aquarius. Even more telling of the coming into view of the planet “Marduk” from the southern skies and its fast becoming “Ni- fee VE Ee THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 95